I mentioned in my last post how I got here, and why I was so sleep deprived. What I forgot to mention was my sneaking tendency toward a caffein addiction by PitMad day, but that is beside the point. PitMad was upon me. If there was ever a day to justify caffein and chocolate consumption, […]
It had been five minutes since I turned on the sound machine in my daughter’s room. At just over one year old, she is the world’s most sensitive sleeper fifty percent of the time. We tiptoe when we walk down her hallway, and we refuse to watch anything with guns or a laugh track after […]
Today I’m sharing an unedited excerpt from the first draft of my current work in progress. (Yikes!) In case you haven’t been following, this book is a how-to, how-not-to, comedic insight into what it’s like to be a partner to a medical professional in training. As the days have been getting hotter, the sunshine has […]
As the battle with quarantine rages, I’ve been searching high and low for solutions to the boredom that is filling our house. We’ve exploded stick bombs, sprayed each other in the face with spray bottles, lined up every shoe in the house, and watched every episode of PJ Masks several hundred times. And while all […]
During my formative years, my dad put in a valiant effort to make me a well-rounded music connoisseur. Variety streamed from anything with speakers, from They Might Be Giants to Led Zeppelin. My siblings and I knew well that triangle man hated particle man, and all that glitters is gold. My mom did her best […]
We woke up Sunday morning and the first thing Rhett said to me was, “You better post about me on Instagram.” Out of character, this demand struck me as odd until I fully woke up to the realization that it was Father’s Day. Of course I would post about him. What else would a loving […]
It all started one day when Rhett was home to help during the bedtime routine. The best things always come about when there is a change in routine. I left our extremely gassy baby with him to be burped while I took care of putting our toddler to bed. Hours later, I came downstairs to […]
Today I decided to be a stereotype. Six days postpartum, stuck 5 hours away from family, I experienced a fortunate phenomenon: let’s call it Too Many Grandparents Syndrome. TMGS is very serious, and can result in a feeling that is often uncomfortable for young moms. With 3 out of 4 of my kids’ grandparents visiting […]
It’s Day 17 without a microwave, and the natives are growing restless. I awoke this morning to a thought that is becoming all too familiar: What if we don’t survive this day? We’ve been lucky to make it this far in such uncharted territory. Residents of this island are an impatient toddler, a father who […]
We are five days into the new year already! Happy 2019! How are those resolutions coming along? All still roaring with the success of blind faith and optimism brought on by a sugar-induced holiday haze? I have to admit, my resolution right now is one-fold: function better than I have been since the onset of […]
